Sustainability of Conventional Cars

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Title of report (How sustainable are conventional
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Introduction
This research problem in this paper deals with
sustainability of conventional cars in U.K. Conventional
cars use diesel or gasoline for powering the internal
combustion engine. Conventional engine are prime mover
that uses burning fuel in the engine as well as the
combustion products serve as thermodynamic fluid.
There are almost 95% of the motor vehicles that mainly
depends on energy and oil that holds hostage of car travel
to the geopolitical issues as well as the changes in oil
prices (Burns, 2013). This research mainly deals with
sustainability of conventional cars that are used in daily
life. This research can help to learn the sustainability of
conventional cars and the way the cars can be made
sustainable by introducing new methods.
This paper aims at finding the sustainability of the
conventional cars and the newly introduced sustainable
cars alternative to the conventional cars. This paper
consists of a background research study of the chosen
topic with the research methodology that will be carried
out for conducting the research study. There is also a
detailed questionnaire consisting the question that are to
be asked in the interview.
The gasoline cars provide many disadvantage that affects
the environment, health, and dependency of fossil fuels,
oil politics and many more. So, to make the conventional
cars more sustainable, hybrid cars have been introduced
for making the cars sustainable. The car owners prefers to
choose electric vehicles which helps them to reduce the
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running cost that in turn also reduces the environmental
footprint. The annual sales of the electric vehicles have
generally increased from 1% of the total sales in the year
2004 to about 4.4% in the year 2011 in U.S. These vehicles
does not involve the possibility to charge the electric
hybrid vehicle where the vehicles are plugged in for some
external outlet (Pojani and Stead, 2015).
For making the conventional cars more sustainable,
manufactures have mainly developed new electric
vehicles that are known as hybrid cars. The hybrid cars
are a combination of electric motor and petrol engine.
Fuel is used for powering the cars and the cars also has
batteries for driving the electric motors.
The sustainable technologies promises in reducing the
harmful emissions as well as use of the resources very
efficiently (Bohnsack, Pinkse and Kolk, 2014). Electric
vehicles are also being used by different users and it is
gaining popularity among them. The electric vehicle
mainly use electricity with the carbon footprint. The
electric vehicles mainly needs charge to run on road.
There may always a difference between availability of
electric sources and the carbon footprint. Driving an
electric vehicle in U.K. mainly produces the same amount
of CO2 compared to the hybrid cars.
The electric vehicles and the hybrid cars have many
manufacturing emissions compared to the normal cars.
When the electric car runs on the road, it produces up to
30,000 pounds of carbon-di-oxide. Compared to
conventional car that emits 14,000 pounds of CO2. The
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